Tag: fraud

There appeared an article, in which an attempt was made to expose questionable practices of some Slovenian enterpreneurs. The scheme is such: establish a company, perform some work, bleed it dry, then establish a new one and move all workers into it, at the same time avoiding paying benefits and a sizable portion of salaries. When the new company has server its purpose, establish a new one, and so on, as far as it goes. These companies are frequently registered at the same address.

The article says that there are as many as 120 companies registered in one residential building. But because of a weakness of the law, state inspectors can’t put an end to such practice.

I wanted to see these addresses on the map, so here’s an attempt. For every address with more than five companies, there’s a dot, with color and radius proportional with number of companies registered there. The biggest dots represent business buildings, in which a predominantly legitimate businesses reside. My data sources didn’t allow for filtering out just residential buildings.

Clicking on a marker displays a popup with a list of companies, sorted by date of establishment – youngest first. There’s also a chart of predominant business categories at that address. The categories that the article mentions as most prone to scheme in question, are Construction and Retail. So even of this map can’t really show the locations with these questionable companies, it can maybe help their discovery. If there’s a big dot with predominantly these categories, there’s a certain possibility that some of these fraudulent companies are there.

Most addresses shown here of course don’t have anything to do with any illegal activity.